High-speed video and fancy math have overturned an old theory about how snapping shrimp make such a racket.
About 6 centimeters long, snapping shrimp of one of the largest species, Alpheus heterochaelis, makes a resounding whomp when it shuts its oversized claw. Science
By quickly closing oversized claws while defending their territory, clusters of certain shrimp produce enough noise to interfere with the Navy’s sonar.
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